Parents and five young kids found ‘slumped like rag dolls’ with suspected carbon monoxide poisoning at family BBQ

A relative found the family of seven semi-conscious at their home in Newcastle on Sunday evening

By Gemma Mullin

21st March 2017, 8:18 pm

Updated: 21st March 2017, 8:18 pm

PARENTS and five young kids were found "slumped like rag dolls" with suspected carbon monoxide poisoning at a family BBQ, it's reported.

Emergency services rushed to Walker, Newcastle, at around 10.35pm on Sunday after the family of seven were found semi-conscious by a relative.

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Emergency services were called to an address at the Fossway in Walker, Newcastle, at around 10:35pm on Sunday, pictured, file image

Barha Aldamgha and her partner Ibrahim Zia Alabdin, along with their five children, Hiba, eight, Mohammed, seven, Ginah, four, Gada, two, and one-year-old Ahmmad, were later discharged from hospital after being told they were okay.

She told the Newcastle Chronicle through her brother Basher acting as a translator: “I’m so relieved that we are all okay. I’m very happy and I know we have been very lucky.”

Barha said the family were enjoying a family BBQ for tea but insisted it had not been used inside the house.

She told the newspaper: “I don’t understand what happened. We had a BBQ last weekend exactly the same - same charcoal, same BBQ, everything and this did not happen."

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